Added: 10/28/2006 |
Important Years in the History of FriscoHow does Thomas Edison have a connection to the social life in Frisco? Read the following article and you will find the answer to that question. You might conclude that Frisco is not the only city with a strong connection to Edison. You might also find that history can connect Edison's inventions with the social life in almost any American city.
History records that a group of men in the offices of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway made a decision that led to the founding of Frisco. In 1902, they decided that the Railway needed a watering hole at a point about 12 miles north of Dallas. They chose a site that then lacked any large cluster of homes. They decided to establish a new town, and to call that town Emerson.
Now it did not take long for the men in the U.S. Postal Department to notice that the name Emerson was very similar to the name of another Texas City. Therefore, the U.S. Postal Service asked the residents of Emerson to come up with a new name. The residents then agreed to rename their City, and they chose to call it Frisco.
The above information makes it clear that 1902 was an important year in the history of Frisco. Yet the year associated with an event that greatly affected the City’s social life was the year of 1913. During that year the City of Frisco received electrical service. The flow of electrons into Frisco certainly facilitated the in-City movement of Cupid’s arrows.
Following the arrival of electrical service, the residents of Frisco soon found it easier to listen to recorded news and music. Eventually, they listened to news and music from the radio. During a really special news event, a dating couple might join the family in order to listen to the radio announcer. Sometimes a young man might postpone a date, in order to listen to a baseball program.
Later the dating couples in Frisco would sometimes spend the night watching the TV. For three decades the limited content on programs aired by the major networks had to satisfy dating couples in Frisco. Then the number of available programs increased and the availability of movies increased as well. Those increases followed the appearance of cable TV and VCR machines.
As the programming content expanded, more and more dating couples spent at least an occasional date in front of the TV. Thanks to the VCR, men could tape a sports event while treating a special woman to a great date. Any date could more easily be made into a movie production, with the dating couples performing for an amateur videographer.
With the invention of the home computer, and the introduction of the Internet, technology changed once again the nature of dating in Frisco. Not only did more couples spend a part of a date at the computer, more dates began with some messages sent over the Internet. The initiation of dates through the sending of e-mails became so common that Hollywood producers had soon chosen that method of correspondence as the basis for a popular movie.
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